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Originally Posted by Chris
Quite. And just think how many of those nine injured people would be dead if the attacker had had easy access to a firearm, rather than a knife.
As for Baltimore, well as Pip says, so many firearms deaths in the USA have become routine that they barely get mentioned. You have to gun down a lot of people to get on the news these days.
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Like in Paris 2015?
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Shootings and bomb blasts left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded, with more than 100 in a critical condition.
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One dead but could end up being more. From previous Lyon attack link.
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three are in a critical condition.
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A teenage girl who became one of the most notorious gangsters in her city was herself gunned down in a gruesome attack.
Gakirah Barnes boasted about "killing 17 people" and amassed an army of social media followers.
Her bloodthirsty lifestyle helped Gakirah become one of the most infamous female gang members in American history.
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Killing 17 people gets mass supports from certain quarters.
Be responsible for hundreds of deaths and you get Hollywood stars supporting you.
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He has always maintained he did not commit the murders, but did apologise for founding the Crips gang in Los Angeles in 1971. The gang has been blamed for hundreds of deaths during decades of fighting with rival gangs.
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Williams' supporters include rapper Snoop Dogg - himself a former Crip - actors Jamie Foxx and Susan Sarandon and human rights campaigners Rev Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger.
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Guns are not always used.
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At least 26 people have been killed and 11 others seriously injured in an arson attack on a Mexican bar, which has highlighted the failure of the country’s new president to quickly bring down record levels of violence.
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